Workers United News

The union group has filed 23 different charges to the National Labor Relations Board, including wrongful termination, unapproved surveillance, and other accusations.

The victory was the union’s first outside Buffalo and appeared to underscore its momentum in organizing company employees across the country.

The store in Arizona joins two in New York as the only corporate Starbucks stores with a union.

On December 9, Starbucks workers at two stores in Buffalo took an enormous step toward organizing the coffee chain’s labor force when they voted to form a union with Workers United.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that single Starbucks stores, not multiple locations in an area, were the proper jurisdictions for unionization votes.

Pennsylvania Joint Board of Workers United, which wants to represent approximately 85 workers, has filed a federal unfair labor practice charge against food service contracting giant Aramark for thwarting at least one employee’s attempts to organize workers.